The culture of craft LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics

The culture of craft LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / SociolinguisticsPeter Dormer presents a series of lively, clearly argued discussions about the relevance of handicraft in a world whose aesthetics and design are largely determined by technology. One of the key questions discussed in the book is what makes the difference between a craft and a modern technology.

the study was carried out against a backdrop of changing gender role attitudes and behaviour as well as significant demographic change

The divergence between the texts of 1607 and 1641 are set out clearly in this volume

part of the milieu of Chicago sociology and involved in its studies of race and immigration

stage history

aspects of the detective story

with an emphasis on seventeenth-century prose from The Netherlands

the Belle Époque

and women's own narratives of their wartime lives

Ruskin is the force behind key debates in education today

modernist fiction and the urban public sphere charts the changing representations of masculinity in modernist fiction in the context of London

Exposes the inner workings of inquisitions in medieval France through expert translations of primary sources

Negotiating the financing and geopolitics of regular commercial air service delayed its inception until the 1930s